This is how scientists imagine the fish-hunting orca ancestor Rododelphis stamatiadisi based on the fossil findings discovered by the international team: Image: Rossella Falen Orcas and false killer whales(Orcinus orca and Pseudorca crassidens) living today are known...
According to recent evidence, the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic were visited centuries before Europeans by South American indigenous people who left charcoal and bones of their hunted animals. Photo: Julia Hager The Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic were...
Norcemgrotta in the municipality of Narvik is one of the two caves that the research team is examining for traces of prehistoric animals. Photo: Marius Robu Archaeological evidence of high latitude wildlife from before the last ice age is extremely rare due to erosion...
The bodies of the two mummified young cave lions Boris and Sparta are very well preserved. a) The female Sparta; b) the male Boris; the heads of the two cubs from the side: (c) Sparta; (d) Boris; e) Sparta from above; (f) dark brown tail tip of Sparta. Photos:...
Ten of these small glass beads, which originated in Venice and were valuable trade items centuries ago, were found in the tundra of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska. Photo: Kunz & Mills, 2021/American Antiquity Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering...
